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This one is not that straight-forward there is a filter you can use as follows:

function bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads( $default ) {
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
		foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
			if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
				$default = true;
			}
		}
		
		return $default;
	
}

add_filter( 'bp_disable_avatar_uploads', 'bpex_role_disable_avatar_uploads' );

However this causes BuddyPress to simply show the user that they can upload their profile image via gravatar, and I’m afraid you can’t switch this off.

So the alternative is to remove the Change Photo tab and admin-bar menu item:

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab', 50 );
add_action( 'bp_setup_admin_bar', 'bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo', 50 );

function bpex_remove_change_profile_photo_tab() {
	
	if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() && ! bp_is_user_activity() && ! bp_is_user() && bp_displayed_user_id() != wp_get_current_user() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'profile', 'change-avatar' );
		}
	}

}

function bpex_admin_bar_remove_change_profile_photo() {
	
	global $wp_admin_bar, $bp;

	if ( ! bp_use_wp_admin_bar() || defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
	
	if ( ! $user_id || $user_id == 0 || ! is_numeric( $user_id ) ) {
		return;
	}
	
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_roles_array = $user->roles ? $user->roles : array();
	
	foreach ( $user_roles_array as $key => $role ) {
		if ( $role == 'subscriber' ) {
			$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'my-account-xprofile-change-avatar', 'my-account-xprrofile' );
		}
	}

}

You’d need to put this in your child themes functions.php or a bp-custom.php file in the plugins directory.

Hi there, some answers:

1. You can change the layout of profiles by overloading the profile files and css, see: https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/theme-compatibility-2/ it’s possibly a bit advanced for you right now but all the files in the plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/your-bp-theme/buddypress can be copied, modified and loaded from your child theme directory. Similarly you can overload the css to make styling and layout changes.

1b. The default is for horizontal navigation unless you’ve changed it in Customizer>>BuddyPress.

2. The BuddyPress extended profile is editable from the front end, and avatar too. It’s only the wordpress profile that’s enditable in admin and most BP sites don’t use that as t’s really set up for authors.

3. I recently posted the code to combine all the profile activity feeds into 1, https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-combine-activity-tabs-to-one/

4. https://wordpress.org/plugins/cb-change-mail-sender/

5+6 are bbPress questions, for the best answer you should post on their forum https://bbpress.org/forums/

7. Assuming you have set up the groups directory page and enabled group creation by users in Settings>>BuddyPress>>Options, users will have the option to create groups on the Groups directory page and also from the Groups menu of the WordPress toolbar ( top right hand side of the screen, hover over your avatar image, drop down will appear one option will be groups.

Hi there,

My suggestion is that you add a new menu item “All” and create a new set of queries for the page then make that page the default landing page for the profile activity page. Here’s my code to do this:

function bpex_set_member_default_nav() {
 
		if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() && ! bp_is_user_activity() && ! bp_is_user() ) {
		    return;
	         }

                bp_core_new_nav_default(
		array(
			'parent_slug'       => buddypress()->activity->id,
		// other "activity" sub_nav slugs : personal favorites friends groups mentons
			'subnav_slug'       => 'all-activity',
			'screen_function'   => 'bp_activity_screen_all_activity'
		)
	);
}
add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_set_member_default_nav', 20 );

add_action( 'bp_setup_nav', 'bpex_just_me_tab', 50 );
add_action( 'bp_setup_admin_bar', 'bpex_admin_bar_add', 50 );

function bpex_just_me_tab() {
	
	if ( ! bp_is_user_profile() && ! bp_is_user_activity() && ! bp_is_user() ) {
		return;
	}
	
	global $bp;
	$user_id = bp_displayed_user_id();
	
		bp_core_new_subnav_item( array(
			'name'            => _x( 'All', 'Profile activity screen sub nav', 'buddypress' ),
			'slug'            => 'all-activity',
			'parent_url'      => bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) . 'activity/',
			'parent_slug'     => 'activity',
			'screen_function' => 'bp_activity_screen_all_activity',
			'position'        => 10
		) );

}

function bpex_admin_bar_add() {
	
	global $wp_admin_bar, $bp;

	if ( ! bp_use_wp_admin_bar() || defined( 'DOING_AJAX' ) ) {
		return false;
	}

	$user_id = get_current_user_id();
	
	if ( ! $user_id || $user_id == 0 || ! is_numeric( $user_id ) ) {
		return;
	}
	
	// Personal.
	//$wp_admin_bar->remove_menu( 'my-account-activity-personal', 'my-account-activity' );

	$wp_admin_bar->add_menu( array(
		'parent'   => 'my-account-activity',
		'id'       => 'my-account-activity-all-activity',
		'title'    => 'All',
		'href'     => bp_core_get_user_domain( $user_id ) . 'activity/all-activity/',
		'position' => 10
	) );
}
function bp_activity_screen_all_activity() {

	do_action( 'bp_activity_screen_all_activity' );

	bp_core_load_template( apply_filters( 'bp_activity_template_all_activity', 'members/single/home' ) );
}

function bp_activity_filter_all_activity_scope( $retval = array(), $filter = array() ) {

	// Determine the user_id.
	if ( ! empty( $filter['user_id'] ) ) {
		$user_id = $filter['user_id'];
	} else {
		$user_id = bp_displayed_user_id()
			? bp_displayed_user_id()
			: bp_loggedin_user_id();
	}

	// Should we show all items regardless of sitewide visibility?
	$show_hidden = array();
	if ( ! empty( $user_id ) && $user_id !== bp_loggedin_user_id() ) {
		$show_hidden = array(
			'column' => 'hide_sitewide',
			'value'  => 0
		);
	}

	// Determine groups of user.
	$groups = groups_get_user_groups( $user_id );
	if ( empty( $groups['groups'] ) ) {
		$groups = array( 'groups' => 0 );
	}

	// Determine the favorites.
	$favs = bp_activity_get_user_favorites( $user_id );
	if ( empty( $favs ) ) {
		$favs = array( 0 );
	}

	// Determine friends of user.
	$friends = friends_get_friend_user_ids( $user_id );
	if ( empty( $friends ) ) {
		$friends = array( 0 );
	}

	$retval = array(
		'relation' => 'OR',
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column'  => 'user_id',
				'compare' => 'IN',
				'value'   => (array) $friends
			)
		),
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column' => 'component',
				'value'  => buddypress()->groups->id
			),
			array(
				'column'  => 'item_id',
				'compare' => 'IN',
				'value'   => (array) $groups['groups']
			)
		),
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column' => 'user_id',
				'value'  => $user_id
			)
		),
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column'  => 'id',
				'compare' => 'IN',
				'value'   => (array) $favs
			)
		),
		array(
			'relation' => 'AND',
			array(
				'column'  => 'content',
				'compare' => 'LIKE',

				// Start search at @ symbol and stop search at closing tag delimiter.
				'value'   => '@' . bp_activity_get_user_mentionname( $user_id ) . '<'
			)
		),
		// We should only be able to view sitewide activity content for friends.
		array(
			'column' => 'hide_sitewide',
			'value'  => 0
		),

		// Overrides.
		'override' => array(
			'filter'      => array( 'user_id' => 0 ),
			'show_hidden' => true
		),
	);
	

	return $retval;
}
add_filter( 'bp_activity_set_all-activity_scope_args', 'bp_activity_filter_all_activity_scope', 10, 2 );

Once you have done that you would also want to overload the buddypress/bp-templates/your-template/members/single/activity.php to make sure this new page contains the post update form:

Change:

if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_my_profile() && ( !bp_current_action() || bp_is_current_action( 'just-me' ) ) )
	bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );

To:

if ( is_user_logged_in() && bp_is_my_profile() && ( !bp_current_action() || bp_is_current_action( 'all-activity' ) ) )
	bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );

Note: with this method there is a danger of duplicating activity since a friend posting to a group would show up in the groups search as well as the friends search etc. so you may want to adjust the $retval criteria.

Also you might want to add a post form for visiting users so they can leave a comment for the user, you could ad this:

function bpex_load_mention_me() {
	
	if ( get_current_user_id() != bp_displayed_user_id() ) {
		$_GET['r'] = bp_activity_get_user_mentionname( bp_displayed_user_id() );
		bp_get_template_part( 'activity/post-form' );
	}

}

add_action( 'bp_before_member_body', 'bpex_load_mention_me' );

Hi there, WordPress and BuddyPress are predominately PHP applications. PHP requires a page load in order to view new content and this is what you are seeing – you click a menu item a new page loads and it starts from the top of the page again. There are tricks to bring the page focus back to where you were and BP uses these where appropriate, another trick is to use Javescript to fetch now content and again BP uses this, in the activity page for example. But when you are clicking a main link, an entire now page is going to be loaded to there’s not a reference of where you were in order to set the new page focus. So in short, it’s the way WordPress and BuddyPress have been written, yu’d need to do a significant rewrite to change it.

@dope-boy you are really rude for the “stupid” statment to @prashantvatsh
…
what @prashantvatsh gave you is the best solution to what you are actually looking for

..
the only way to change buddypress labels like on the menu (“friend, profile, notification ” ) .. the best way is my changing the language to your choice
..

@prashantvatsh was just trying to help

For the activation and welcome messages you can find them in Email menu in dashboard. Find the one that you want to edit and add your text there and then test.

If wants to do it with code then please check this https://websistent.com/custom-buddypress-activation-email/

Same for the translation. You can change the content there in the Email menu.

Please see: https://prnt.sc/l5n76g

Thanks

We have this fixed for our next release, v3.1. This will be released next week (Wednesday) at the latest. The bug was addressed at https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7869

@alpokoskiniva “Repair email” deletes the emails from the “Emails” menu, then re-adds them. You don’t need to do this unless you’ve added a translation to your site after installing BuddyPress, and want the translated emails, or if you’ve made a code change to the email language in the BuddyPress files, which is what @filipponeri20 has done. We strongly recommend that no-one ever changes a core file of BuddyPress, because it will be overwritten when you update.

Hi Glenn,

I’ve never tried Peepso or Social Engine, so I@m not speaking from a point of balance. I have tried other dedicated hosted platforms such as Ning though so I do have some wider experience.

I think your issues can be boiled down into two areas: Maintenance, and features.

Any WordPress site, any site for that matter is going to require maintenance the main question is who does that maintenance, how well is it done and how quickly new issues can be resolved.

With a WordPress/BuddyPress installation I’d say that the level of maintenance that you yourself have to do (or pay for) is going to be higher than with peepso. Much depends on what features your add to the basic installation, in my experience in general WP and BP updates are solid and cause few issues, it’s usually the other plugins that can cause issues (prime eample recently was a SiteOrigin Page Builder update that wrecked my front page and they did not fix it for several months).

My expectation with Peepso is that what you sacrifice in the way of variety of options available to you I’d hope that in return the options you do get will be reasonably well integrated with each other and less likely to cause conflicts resulting in feature or site loss that you would need to take a hand in resolving. The downside is if you find there are specific feature you need, or issues that are not getting resolved, you have few alternatives to go to, you may find yourself stuck.

I once had a paid hosted site costing $50 per month which pretty much ground to halt and the provider refused to see the problem. It made me feel pretty helpless and it was the reason I moved to BuddyPress – I figured the money I saved on hosting I could use to fund feature additions to the basic BP setup.

Anyway getting back to the point, so I reckon peepso will be less maintenance but with less features, and this brings me on to the second point – features.

I think it would probably be a good idea to map out exactly which features you want in quite some detail and see how that drives your thoughts. For example you say you want video, would this be you hosting the video files or libraries of YouTube style embeds? Would you need group galleries, user galleries, sitewide gallery etc?

Here’s what I tend to use:

Chat – IfyChat – free version limited to 10 concurrent users but an excellent chat engine
Video/photos/audio – Either MediaPress or rtMedia, rtMedia is more stylish but add-ons are quite expensive.
Groups/xprofiles, activity, friends – BuddyPress.
News areas – probably more general workpress based solutions for this, are you thinking RSS feeds from other sites or internal news (could be done with a simple News category?).
Polls – never really looked at polls, I note there is this – https://themekraft.com/new-plugin-buddypress-polls/ for starters, looks interesting but I’ve not tried it.

Regarding supporting mobile, BP is coming out with a new theme – BP Nouveau, this has options for vertical menus which I think will be a lot more mobile friendly.

The bulk of being mobile friendly comes down to the theme you are using and whilst most are responsive these days I personally find that having a mobile responsive theme is not good enough for phones, what I do is run a second mobile specific theme and use a theme switcher to detect and switch themes.

Another point to bear in mind with BP is that there are a great many plugins that help you choose how your site is going to work, there’s a range of plugins that change the may notifications and email subscriptions work. This is a benefit of BP, but it does also increase the plugin count.

Just search the forum for past suggestions, this thread for example explains how to change the menu ordering:

BP 2.6.1.1 – Object of class BP_Core_BP_Nav_BackCompat could not be converted to string error

I wonder why Members page is not part of the BuddyPress menu?

Good question! This is something you can change at the theme level. Nearly all areas of BuddyPress can be customised. If you need help feel free to post questions and open new topics.

To change items, see the link I referenced: https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/#change-item-names-of-users-and-groups-nav-menus

Hi @shayne-thiessen
You can use code suggest in following thread.

Change menu items below user header

/* Example to Change item names of user’s and group’s nav menus ...
Profile Menu https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/#examples
*/ 
function bpcodex_rename_profile_tabs() {
  
      buddypress()->members->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'My Forums', 'textdomain' ) ), 'forums' );
      buddypress()->members->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'MY Groups', 'textdomain' ) ), 'groups' );
  
}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpcodex_rename_profile_tabs' );

/* Example to Rename Group Menus https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/#examples*/ 	
function bpcodex_rename_group_tabs() {
 
    if ( ! bp_is_group() ) {
        return;
    }
    
    buddypress()->groups->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'Group Discussion', 'buddypress' ) ), 'forum', bp_current_item() );
	buddypress()->groups->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'Group Members', 'buddypress' ) ), 'members', bp_current_item() );
	buddypress()->groups->nav->edit_nav( array( 'name' => __( 'Group Activity', 'buddypress' ) ), 'home', bp_current_item() );
}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpcodex_rename_group_tabs' );	
	

/* Example to Remove subnav tabs from Group Settings  https://codex.buddypress.org/developer/navigation-api/#examples*/ 	
	function bpcodex_remove_group_manager_subnav_tabs() {   
    // site admin will see all tabs
    if ( ! bp_is_group() || ! ( bp_is_current_action( 'admin' ) && bp_action_variable( 0 ) ) || is_super_admin() ) {
        return;
    }
       // all subnav items are listed here.
       // comment those you want to show
        $hide_tabs = array(             
        //  'group-settings'    => 1,
        //    'delete-group'      => 1,
         //   'group-avatar'      => 1,
        //  'group-invites'     => 1,
         //   'manage-members'    => 1,
        //  'forum'             => 1,
        //  'group-cover-image' => 1
        );
                   
        $parent_nav_slug = bp_get_current_group_slug() . '_manage';
  
    //Remove the nav items
    foreach ( array_keys( $hide_tabs ) as $tab ) {
        bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $parent_nav_slug, $tab, 'groups' );
    }   
}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpcodex_remove_group_manager_subnav_tabs' );

I think you need a child-theme and change the header.php to include your custom navigation, I have created a similar menu but did require a lot of work in the header.

When new messages the number of messages shows in the message-icon, links to profile page, also woocommerce integrated and a dashboard link for admin only.

The following is in my custom header.php

First code links to profile.
<li><a href="<?php echo bp_loggedin_user_domain(); ?>" class="activitylink" title="My Account"><span class="dashicons dashicons-admin-users"></span></a></li>

This code deals with messages.

<li><a href="<?php global $current_user; echo home_url() . '/members/' . $current_user->user_login . '/messages/'; ?>"><span class="dashicons dashicons-admin-comments"></span><span class="commentcount"><?php if (bp_get_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) > 0 ) { ?> <?php bp_total_unread_messages_count( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ?><?php } ?></span></a>
</li>

Since I did not want too much in my nav I only used these buddypress features, more would clog up my website too much.

But where it comes down to is with a child-theme you can make it exactly as you like.

Good luck
P.H.

Hi. I made a minor change in the code @danbp suggests (basically the $args[‘subnav_slug’] and now I believe it works as expected.
So I guess it’s not a BuddyPress bug.

Please, try the following

function bpex_change_profile_settings_default_tab() {

	if( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :

	$access        = bp_core_can_edit_settings();
	$slug          = bp_get_settings_slug();

	$args = array(
		'parent_slug'     => $slug,
		'subnav_slug'	  => 'notifications',
		'screen_function' => 'bp_settings_screen_notification',
		'user_has_access' => $access
		);
 
	bp_core_new_nav_default( $args );

	endif;

}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpex_change_profile_settings_default_tab' );

function bpex_remove_general_item_on_usermenu() {
global $wp_admin_bar;

	if ( bp_use_wp_admin_bar() ) {
		$wp_admin_bar->remove_node( 'my-account-settings-general' );
	}

}
add_action( 'wp_before_admin_bar_render', 'bpex_remove_general_item_on_usermenu' );

function bpex_remove_profile_settings_general_tab() {

	if( bp_is_active( 'xprofile' ) ) :	

		bp_core_remove_subnav_item( 'settings', 'general' );

	endif;

}
add_action( 'bp_actions', 'bpex_remove_profile_settings_general_tab' );